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Somalia: Draft Law A ‘Major Setback’ For Victims Of Sexual Violence
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 4:13 pm | UN News
© UNICEF/Kate Holt A girl stands in a camp for displaced people, in Mogadishu, the capital. She was attacked and beaten following a food distribution (file). The UN official working to end rape during wartime is urging authorities in Somalia to ... More >>
Polio Vaccination Campaigns Restart In Afghanistan And Pakistan After COVID-19 Hiatus
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 7:39 am | UN News
In Afghanistan, a father cradles his child as female health workers administer polio vaccines. © UNICEF Polio vaccinations campaigns have resumed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, months after having been severely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ... More >>
Violence In Sudan’s Western Darfur Forces 2,500 Into Chad: UN Refugee Agency
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 7:17 am | UN News
Sudanese refugees flee across the border to escape Darfur violence. Twenty-three-year-old Sudanese refugee fled with her children to Kartafa in Chad in July 2020. © UNHCR/Aristophane Ngargoune Recent clashes in Sudan’s Western Darfur region has driven more than ... More >>
New Guidance For Protecting Migrant Workers During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Tuesday, 11 August 2020, 8:08 am | UN News
Women migrant workers in a ceramics factory in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. UN Women/Pornvit Visitoran As migrant workers continue to be on the front lines of the collective response to COVID-19, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) ... More >>
Lessons Of Nagasaki Survivors Should Motivate The World To Eliminate All Nuclear Weapons – UN Chief
Monday, 10 August 2020, 7:09 am | UN News
Ruins of Nagasaki about 800 metres from the hypocenter in mid-October 1945. UN Photo/Shigeo Hayashi UN Secretary General António Guterres on Sunday marked 75 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki with praise for the hibakusha , the survivors, who transformed ... More >>
UN Chief Spotlights Indigenous Peoples’ Resilience In Face Of COVID-19 Pandemic
Monday, 10 August 2020, 7:05 am | UN News
Inclusion and participation of the world’s 476 million indigenous peoples must be ensured in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and on the road ahead towards recovery, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has underscored. Marking the International ... More >>
Beirut Blast: Here’s How You Can Help The UN Aid Lebanon's Recovery
Saturday, 8 August 2020, 3:15 pm | UN News
After a devasting blast ripped through Beirut Port in Lebanon on Tuesday, wounding thousands and rendering hundreds of thousands homeless, the UN moved rapidly to step up its relief effort. © UNOCHA A deadly explosion at Beirut Port wreaks ... More >>
Cross-border Links Between Terrorists, Organized Crime, Underscore Need For Coherent Global Response
Friday, 7 August 2020, 7:31 am | UN News
The nexus between terrorism and organized crime took centre stage in the Security Council on Thursday, with experts raising fresh concerns over opportunistic alliances emerging among belligerents who share a hostility towards national authorities, and ... More >>
New Humanitarian Air Service Boosts COVID-19 Response In The Pacific
Friday, 7 August 2020, 7:29 am | UN News
The UN is delivering vital medical supplies, to support COVID-19 response efforts in the Pacific. WFP/Allan Stephen A flight carrying protective masks, ventilators and other essential medical supplies for COVID-19 response, landed in Papua New Guinea ... More >>
Security Council Condemns ‘Heinous And Cowardly’ Terrorist Attack In Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Friday, 7 August 2020, 7:18 am | UN News
Members of the UN Security Council have condemned “in the strongest terms” the terrorist attack at a prison complex in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Monday, that left at least 29 people – including civilians – dead. Many more were wounded in the ... More >>
Independent Rights Experts Call On India To Remedy ‘alarming’ Situation In Jammu And Kashmir
Thursday, 6 August 2020, 7:21 am | UN News
Friday prayers in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. © John Isaac UN-appointed independent human rights experts have called for urgent action in India’s Jammu and Kashmir, amid concerns of ongoing abuses against civilians there. The appeal comes a year ... More >>
Breastfeeding Link To COVID-19 Is Negligible, Says World Health Organization
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 7:21 am | UN News
The risk of COVID-19 infection from breastfeeding is negligible and has never been documented, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, in a call for greater support for the practice. The appeal, during World Breastfeeding Week , comes as ... More >>
South Sudan Refugee, Athlete, Olympian Is Newest UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 7:12 am | UN News
Yiech Pur Biel has been named as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. © UNHCR/Tobin Jones A track and field athlete from South Sudan who was forced to flee conflict as a child was on Tuesday named a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR . Yiech ... More >>
UN Censures ‘heinous Attacks’ In Lake Chad Basin
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 7:09 am | UN News
Conflict over many years has driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in north-east Cameroon. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe The Secretary-General strongly condemned “heinous attacks” against civilians in the Lake Chad Basin, a UN spokesperson ... More >>
Breastfeeding ‘for A Healthier Planet’
Sunday, 2 August 2020, 8:09 am | UN News
A mother and her new born baby at the National Health Center for Mother and Child, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. (4 September 2015) UNICEF/Jan Zammit World Breastfeeding Week got underway on Saturday, with the UN urging communities everywhere to “support ... More >>
No End In Sight To COVID Crisis, And Its Impact Will Last For ‘decades To Come’
Sunday, 2 August 2020, 7:52 am | UN News
A healthcare worker checks the temperature of a patient at a hospital in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand. UN Women/Pathumporn Thongking Expressing “appreciation for WHO and partners’ COVID-19 pandemic response efforts”, the emergency committee ... More >>
Revealed: A Third Of World’s Children Poisoned By Lead, UNICEF Analysis Finds
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 4:24 pm | UN News
Environmental pollution and degradation can be linked to a growing list of health conditions such as skin cancer, lung cancer, asthma, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, malaria, Ebola and Zika. Photo credit: World Bank/Curt Carnemark Lead poisoning is ... More >>
How Do You Define Lawful Peaceful Protest? The UN Human Rights Committee Has A Clear Answer
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 7:09 am | UN News
UN News/Daniel Dickinson Protesters gather at a park in Brooklyn, New York City to demonstrate against racism and police violence. People have the right to demonstrate peacefully and Governments should respect international law and let them do so, senior ... More >>
Asia-Pacific: ‘Call To Action’ Highlights Role Of Family Farmers Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 7:07 am | UN News
UNDP India Disha Project supported by IKEA foundation to promote organic methods of cultivation as a means to economically empower women farmers. Although hundreds of millions of smallholder family farmers in Asia-Pacific produce a majority of the ... More >>
Yemen: Crisis Reaches New Low, Top UN Officials Tell Security Council
Wednesday, 29 July 2020, 8:04 am | UN News
© UNOCHA/Mahmoud Fadel Women queue at a distribution point in Kharaz Camp, Yemen, where measures are being taken to protect beneficiaries and staff against COVID-19 The humanitarian crisis in Yemen has never been worse, with conflict escalating, ... More >>
